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I only know one person in real life with a fp4 after 2.5 years or so.
She says it absolutely sucks, takes forever to load anything on mobile internet (apparently the antennas are horrible or something), android auto barely works, and she says it will probably end up being her least-long lasting phone because it is just becoming more unusable by the month.
I was ready to buy into a fp5 to replace my sony 5ii (partly because on the MKBHD picture test it scored just under the pixels for me personally and it actually has an SD card slot unlike pixels) until I heard that review. Especially because I use android auto regularly.
Then also on reddit, where people ask about fairphone experiences and it is not just advertisements like on Lemmy, every detailed review says it is software bugs galore and mediocre hardware. Allegedly fair phone developers don't develop on fairphones so bugs are rarely noticed and take extremely long time to fix. Also I hear updates are extremely slow and late.
Again, I haven't used one myself, but when reviews are in one of two categories:
I tend to believe the much more detailed review as I got burned on the HMD Nokia 7.1 that was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever used.